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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Watch Blog:
Google Buys Radio Ad Firm; AdWords Headed To Radio Distribution — Wow. Google is to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, a company that puts ads into radio stations, paying up to $1.1 billion for it. Google apparently plans to distribute AdWords via radio this way.
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biz.yahoo.com:
Google to Acquire dMarc Broadcasting — Brings Radio Advertising to Google AdWords Advertisers — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 17, 2006—Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) today announced it has agreed to acquire dMarc Broadcasting, Inc., a Newport Beach …
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Mark Evans, mathewingram.com/work, Random Bytes, Good Morning Silicon Valley and The Kelsey Group
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Google Adwords Coming to a Radio Near You — Hot off the press! (yep, MarketingPilgrim breaks the news first) — Google has acquired dMarc technology for $102 million in cash and plans to integrate into the Google AdWords platform, creating a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.
Margaret Kane / CNET News.com:
Google to buy radio ad company — Google is acquiring a radio advertising company, broadening the reach of its ad business. — The search giant said Tuesday that it will pay $102 million in cash for DMarc Broadcasting, a Newport Beach, Calif., company that works with radio advertisers in the sales …
Mike / Silver Mac:
G5 vs. Intel iMac boot up time — We all saw that video where the guys are comparing start up times between two iMacs, one running Intel and the other running G5 processor. If you are one of several people left on this planet who didn't see it here is the link.
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Eric Bangeman / Ars Technica:
iMac 17" Core Duo — Introduction — Apple 17" iMac Core Duo — The Big Switch has been publicly underway for a mere seven months, and it has borne fruit in the form of a new iMac and laptop, the MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro is due to hit store shelves at some point in February.
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nielsenbuzzmetrics.com:
VNU Brings Together BuzzMetrics, Intelliseek to Create Nielsen BuzzMetrics Service — NEW YORK, Jan. 17, 2006 BuzzMetrics and Intelliseek—two leaders in the tracking and analysis of online consumer-generated media—today announced an agreement in principle under which BuzzMetrics …
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A VC, POP! PR Jots, The Basement, NevOn, Church of the Customer Blog, Adrants, The Diva Marketing Blog, Susan Mernit's Blog and Media Guerrilla
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Steve Rosenbush / Business Week:
Can Murdoch Win on the Web? — He may spend $1 billion to push DirecTV into high-speed broadband — a risky bet on a hotly contested market that just might pay off — Since the late 1990s, satellite TV has created a powerful rival to the cable TV industry.
Official Google Blog:
Open federation for Google Talk — We've just announced open federation for the Google Talk service. What does that mean, you might be wondering. No, it has nothing to do with Star Trek. "Open federation" is technical jargon for when people on different services can talk to each other.
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Search Engine Watch Blog
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Tom Bramwell / eurogamer.net:
(Interview) — You lot seem to like motorbikes for some reason. Climax probably isn't arguing - its MotoGP series, published by THQ, has won all sorts of plaudits for its realistic depiction of crotchrockets and antics related to them, particularly the series' Xbox Live aspects.
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newsnet5.com:
3 Percent Fee On Cell Phones Started 107 Years Ago — Call To Repeal Tax Under Way — COLUMBUS, Ohio — There is a call to repeal a cell phone tax most people probably don't even know they are paying, NewsChannel5 partner ONN reported. — Anybody who has ever tried to decipher a cell phone bill knows how tough it can be.
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Autodesk names new CEO — Autodesk on Tuesday named a 10-year company veteran, Chief Operating Officer Carl Bass, as its new chief executive, effective May 1. — The company's current high-profile CEO, Carol Bartz, will transition out of the post but will remain as chairwoman, according to Autodesk.
Vauhini Vara / Wall Street Journal:
Digging Out the News — A Web Site Invites Readers to Be Editors, — But the Approach Presents Some Risks — What would happen if a Web site's readers — instead of editors — could decide which stories should be published? — Technology journalist Kevin Rose decided to find out.
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Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Don Dodge on The Next …, PaidContent.org, Lloyd@work and Read/WriteWeb
21stcentury3d.com:
21st Century 3D Introduces Uncompressed 4:4:4 Stereoscopic Camera System - 3DVX3 — SPIE Stereoscopic Displays and Applications Conference — Today, 21st Century 3D announced the introduction of the 3DVX3, the latest in their line of digital stereoscopic motion picture camera systems.
Ingrid Marson / CNET News.com:
Firefox gets a fifth of European market — The Mozilla Firefox browser has achieved a market share of more than 20 percent in Europe, according to the latest figures released by French Web metrics firm XiTi. — XiTi, which based its figures on a sample of 32.5 million Web site visits …
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